Amazophrynella vote sp. nov. (Figure 1) Holotype. UFMT-A 11138, adult male, collected on Fazenda São Nicolau (09°50’43.3”S, 58°13’10.6”W), municipality of Cotriguaçu, Mato Grosso state, central Brazil, on 10 December 2009, by Domingos J. Rodrigues. Paratopotypes. UFMT-A 11136, 11145–11150, 11152–11155 (adult females), UFMT-A 6914, 11137, 11139–11144, 11151, 11156–11157 (adult males) collected between 8–15 December 2009 by Ricardo A. Kawashita-Ribeiro. Paratypes. UFMT-A 4412 (adult male), UFMT-A 4401, 4407–4411 (juveniles not sexed), collected on Fazenda Maracatiá (09°10’45”S, 60°37’50”W), municipality of Aripuanã, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, between 08/ 11/2006 to 08/06/2007 by Robson W. Ávila and Ricardo A. Kawashita-Ribeiro; UFMT-A 7852–7853 (juveniles), collected on Mineração Dardanelos, municipality of Aripuanã, Mato Grosso state, on 01/10/2008 by Joseana Freitas and Drausio H. Morais; INPA-H 12256 and 12331 (juveniles), INPA-H 12255, 12342–12343, 12366 (adult females) and INPA-H 12267 (adult male), collected on Cachoeirinha, Rio Madeira, municipality of Manicoré, Amazonas state, Brazil, between 10 to 22/09/2004 by Camila Ferrara, Rafael Bernhard and Miguel T. U. Rodrigues; INPA-H 12326 (adult female), collected on Lago do Açai, Rio Aripuanã, municipality of Novo Aripuanã, Amazonas state, Brazil, on 10/09/2004 by Camila Ferrara and Rafael Bernhard; INPA-H 21558 (adult male), collected on Parque Estadual do Guariba, municipality of Manicoré, Amazonas state, Brazil, on 8/11/2008 by Davi Pantoja; INPA-H 27412, 27417–27419, 27421–27423, 27425–27426 (juveniles), collected on Parque Nacional Nascentes do Lago Jari, Tapauá municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil, on on 16/08/2010 by Vinícius Tadeu de Carvalho, Henrique Luiz Condrati and Shanna Bittencourt; UFMT-A 13680–13681 (juveniles), collected on Reserva Biológica Jaru, Ji-Paraná municipality, Rondônia state, Brazil, by Christine Strüssmann. Diagnosis: The new species is unambiguously embedded in the genus Amazophrynella (Fouquet et al., 2012a) given it possesses the following characters: small size, hind limbs well developed, absence of paratoid glands, tympanum, vocal slits and cranial crests, skin finely granulose, and presence of longitudinally elliptical subarticular tubercles on hands. The new species is characterized by: 1) medium size for the genus (15.2–19.3 mm SVL in males, 20.2–25.7 mm SVL in females); 2) snout rounded in dorsal view, acute in lateral view; 3) subrostral crest present, not converging anteriorly; 4) finger I shorter than finger II; 5) dorsum covered with tubercles; 6) color in life light brown; 7) ventral color pattern reddish brown, with presence of small white dots and brown spots and absence of large blotches or ocelli. Comparisons with other species: Amazophrynella vote sp. nov. is promptly distinguished from the two other Amazophrynella nominal species by the absence of a bright ventral pattern with larger blotches and ocelli. Furthermore, the new species can be differentiated from the two nominal Amazonian species by the following characters (those of the compared species in parenthesis): from A. bokermanni by smaller SVL with males reaching 19.3 mm and females 25.7 mm SVL (maximum SVL of males and females 22 and 28 mm respectively; Izeckson, 1993b), subrostral crest not converging anteriorly (converging anteriorly), head longer than wide (equal size), tibia length/SVL 0.46 ± 0.02, ranging from 0.41–0.5 (0.50 ± 0.01, range 0.48–0.54), and finger I shorter than finger II in males (finger I longer than finger II in males of A. bokermanni) and for the pale ventral coloration with absence of large blotches and ocelli (venter bright colored with presence of blotches and ocelli; Figure 2B); from A. minuta by slightly larger SVL (males 15–18 mm and females 17–24 mm SVL of A. minuta; Rodriguez and Duellman, 1994), eyes larger, representing 40% of head length (eye diameter/head length 30%; Figure 3 a), snout rounded in dorsal view (pointed snout – Melin, 1941; Rodriguez and Duellman, 1994; Figure 3 a), reddish brown coloration with absence of larger blotches in ventral surfaces (venter bright orange with larger blotches; Figure 2C and Figure 3 c), absence of spiny tubercles on dorsum and limbs (prickly warty skin on upper surfaces, especially on the sides and limbs; Melin, 1941; Figure 3 b) and absence of a triangular swelling laterally on neck (laterally on the neck a triangular swelling; Melin, 1941; Figure 3 a). Description of the holotype. Body robust, head triangular, longer than wide, representing 35.2% of the SVL; snout rounded in dorsal view, acute in lateral view; nostrils lateral, situated near the tip of the snout; internarial distance about the same size of eye diameter and upper eyelid width, smaller than eye-to-nostril distance; tympanum absent; tongue lanceolate. Forearms robust; hand with slender and not fringed fingers, fingers free; finger tips slightly enlarged; nuptial pad not observed; relative length of fingers I

Published as part of Ávila, Robson W., Carvalho, Vinicius T., Gordo, Marcelo, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Ricardo A. & Morais, Drausio H., 2012, A new species of Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) from southern Amazonia, pp. 65-74 in Zootaxa 3484 on pages 66-70, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.209500